Thru the Smoky End Boards Canadian Poetry about Sports & Games

"More than 70 poets celebrate the complexity and thrill of sport, including Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Milton Acorn, George Bowering, Lorna Crozier, Robert Kroetsch, Irving Layton, Dorothy Livesay and Al Purdy. Here are brilliant, blazing poems that examine the athlete as well as the skeptic, the fan as well as the anti-fan.